[wp-hackers] Plugin Compatibility Stats

[Daniel]

How can one go about putting that in a theme option page that is using
the api provided by wordpress?
Regards,
Daniel Fenn






On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Michael Clark
<dc153464a11bcf5aeb18180db28017fb.wp-hackers at planetmike.com> wrote:
> Correct, it does not phone home, it just lists the details on the
> bottom of the plugin's settings page. Many many people would email me
> with plugin problems, and trying to figure out what they were running
> was impossible. Telling them to ask their host rarely got a response.
> But now when I can tell them that their version of MySQL has a bug and
> they need to ask their host to upgrade, I'm perceived as helpful. Plus
> I'm not frustrated by them running an old version of WP and trying to
> use my plugin, or some other really odd problem. Mike
>
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 02:19:57 +0500, Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq wrote:
>> I think he means it's displayed on an admin page perhaps the plugin's
>> options page.
>>
>> "I ask for that info and explain *where it is*"
>>
>> You can see it in ksuce_options_page()
>>
> http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/ultimate-category-excluder/trunk/ultimate-category-excluder.php
>>
>> On 11/15/2013 02:07 AM, Doug Stewart wrote:
>>> Did you include a warning about the plugin calling home?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Michael Clark <
>>> dc153464a11bcf5aeb18180db28017fb.wp-hackers at planetmike.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What I did to help troubleshoot was add a small snippet of code to the
>>>> bottom of my plugin's code that reports out the php version, mysql
>>>> version, WordPress version, theme name and version, plugin version
>>>> number, and number of categories. The plugin is
>>>> http://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-category-excluder/ . While I
>>>> still get a lot of bug reports without their system details, it is much
>>>> more easy for me to give help when I ask for that info and explain
>>>> where it is. And then I can a bit more easily figure out problems. Mike
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 07:07:45 -0800, Eric Mann wrote:
>>>>> Considering the majority of hosts I work with on projects are on PHP 5.3
>>>> or
>>>>> above, I have been consistently (accidentally) committing 5.3 and 5.4
>>>> code
>>>>> to plugins and themes that I release on WordPress.org.  Unfortunately,
>>>>> listing a higher version of PHP as a requirement isn't an option since
>>>> most
>>>>> of my systems' end users aren't tech savvy enough to know what they're
>>>> on.
>>>>>
>>>>> But some, when I ask, *do* know their version and I can track things down
>>>>> quickly.
>
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